Workforce Management & Compliance Solutions for Higher Education
For higher education institutions, nimbus helps streamline staff scheduling, automate award compliance and maintain operational continuity across every faculty and campus.
We support complex institutions with large, diverse and multi-campus workforces, reflecting the real-world agility and proactivity needed to achieve operational excellence.
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The Challenges Facing Higher Education Workforce Teams
Universities and TAFEs require a workforce management system that balances compliance, flexibility and transparency in order to succeed.
- Coordinating multi-campus schedules and real-time attendance tracking for casual academic, professional, and administrative staff across faculties and locations
- Handling complex Awards & university EBAs, teaching loads, and sessional pay structures with payment terms based on job role activity type, and function
- Flexible activity scheduling and time capture for multiple emplyment types with links to cost centres and project codes for funding requirements
Create and publish compliant rosters in minutes, aligned to term dates, timetables, and teaching loads.
Mobile clock-in, credential-aware rules, and central dashboards reduce errors and disputes.
Apply Fair Work, Modern Awards, and EA rules automatically with full audit trails.
Keep student support lines and campus operations connected during incidents with action plans and redirection.
Enterprise workforce scheduling, time and attendance, leave, and forecasting across faculties, schools, campuses, and clinics.
Award and EA interpretation, payroll validation, credential tracking, and audit-ready reporting for higher education.
Telephony access control, interaction recording, and contact centre optimisation for student services and admin teams.
Business continuity with action plans and automated communication redirection during outages.
Why higher education organisations choose nimbus
Australian expertise in workforce management, compliance, and continuity across large, multi-campus environments. Featured in the Gartner Market Guide for WFM Applications 2024.
Compliance, security, and data sovereignty
Australian hosting
Keep workforce data onshore with enterprise-grade resilience.
Security by design
SOC2 and ISO-aligned controls, role-based access and audit logging.
Award & EA Alignment
Built for higher education awards and enterprise agreements to support accurate, compliant payroll.
Australian tertiary and training institutions trust nimbus to streamline workforce operations and maintain compliance.
- Centralise scheduling and attendance for all staff types
- Automate enterprise-level award interpretation
- Manage complex scheduling and pay outcomes for Casual Academics
- Reduce admin time with integrated reporting
- Maintain business continuity across campuses
- Empower faculty and staff with mobile access and roster transparency
FAQs
Workforce management software for higher education is a tool that assists with streamlining and optimising the following:
- Scheduling and time tracking
- Absence management
- Compliance
- Forecasting
- Payroll
Yes, nimbus integrates with your payroll and HRIS systems through time2work to ensure continuity. It also integrates with class scheduling tools such as Syllabus+.
Yes. nimbus is designed to support multiple faculties and campuses across universities and TAFEs, reflecting the diverse portfolio of these institutions.
nimbus is designed to provide a centralised location for all information regarding scheduling, payroll and compliance, so all departments can access information in the same location.